36I do not own Naruto or any of the characters from it. If I did, Sasuke would loose the attitude and arragence, Sakura would loose the fan girl attitude and actually be useful and loose her loud mouth and abusive ways, and Gaara and sibling would move to Konoha.
Naruto is going to be OOC because he's not going to grow up the same as he did in the real story. My story starts out totally different for his life aside from Kyubi. His upbringing had a big hand in how he turned out so of course he's going to be different.
You don't like my story or think it's a stupid idea then stop reading. I'm writing this because the idea wouldn't go away and leave me alone. Hopefully by starting it I'll get some peace.
Flames licked the sky as the remains of buildings blackened and crumbled. Rubble littered the ground burying bodies in the bigger piles. Shinobi raced through the destruction trying to put out the fires and save those they could. None noticed the dark figure that approached the sleeping baby that lay on the ground by the deceased Hokage.
Cold eyes observed the infant, taking in the whisker marks and the seal on its belly. Calculations quickly ran through his mind to determine the best course of action. Deciding the child was too dangerous to his plans he snapped his fingers, calling one of his ROOT to him.
"Take it away and dispose of it. Quietly. When you're done take your own life" was the emotionless order. While it was regretful that the child wouldn't be used to further his own power, it was too big a risk that Sarutobi would deny him that path. His rival was too soft and sentimental to allow the child to be made into a weapon, no matter how powerful it would make Konoha. If he were Hokage then the child would be raised with ROOT training and made into the perfect weapon. What a waste. It was a shame about the ROOT member too but he couldn't leave any loose ends. Even ROOT operatives weren't completely safe from jutsu that enter the mind to gather information.
The kneeling shinobi bowed his head and leapt into action, quickly scooping up the baby and disappearing. Danzo looked around to ensure no one was watching before he too disappeared leaving not a trace. He had left in the nick of time for not even minutes after, the Third Hokage appeared with Jiraiya.
Sarutobi's sad look quickly transformed into a worried frown as he saw Minato's body but no baby. Hurrying to the cooling body he shifted it onto its back to see if it was hiding the baby from view. Not finding it near the body he quickly began searching the immediate area as his eyes grew wider with no baby being revealed.
"Where is it?" he demanded as if he expected the very air to answer him.
"Where's what?" Jiraiya asked too lost in his grief to notice what was missing.
"The baby! Where's the baby?"
That quickly snapped him out of his grief as he to began searching for his absent godchild. Their search became frantic as realized that with every place they looked the child wasn't there. Their friend and saviors child was gone and they didn't even know what could have happened to him.
"Baby's don't just disappear into thin air, damn it! Where could he be?" a worried and frustrated Hokage asked.
"Someone must have taken him. They had to have been near the front lines because it didn't take us but a few minutes to get here and we were near the back" a disheartened Jiraiya thought out loud. He felt like a failure. His student saves the village by sacrificing his own life and his son's body and now he's lost the boy. Some godfather he was turning out to be. "Do you think it could have been Iwa? If they found out about Minato's son….." he couldn't finish the sentence. He'd been a godfather less then a day and already he might not have a godson any longer.
"No. No one but us and Tsunade know that Kushina was pregnant with Minato's child."
"So then who could have taken him?"
"I don't know. I have my suspicions but no proof and I doubt I ever will have proof" a sad Sarutobi answered.
"So what do we do? People are going to wonder what happened to the child Minato used, even if they don't know it was his own son."
"We tell them that the child is dead" was his reply.
"But.."
"We don't know if he is or not but the people will want to be reassured. If they knew there was a chance that he was alive then they may look for him to make sure that he dies. At least this way if he is alive no one will look for him to finish him off. If someone does discover that he was Minato's son and Iwa hears of it, this way they'll believe he's dead too and wont go after him if he survives. I know this is hard on you but it's better this way. This way we have hope that he is alive and that he's protected if he is. At least as protected as we can make him in this situation."
Jiraiya knew his sensei was being logical. As much as it pained him to admit it, it was better this way. There was little chance of them ever finding the boy if the people who took him planned to let him live. If the boy was saved then it was better that people think him dead. Jiraiya knew Jinchuriki weren't treated well. It would be better if no one knew the boy was one. He could only hope that Naruto was safe and being looked after.